A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Kingsmen Shakespeare Company closes the 20th season of one of our region’s most popular outdoor theatrical events with A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which was featured in the inaugural season.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies and is widely performed all over the world. The play follows the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors, the mechanicals, who are all controlled and manipulated by the fairies who inhabit the forest in which most of the play is set. This was the first play performed at the Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival in 1997; it was last restaged by the company for our 10th festival. The 20th-season performance is directed by Brett Elliott.

Festival grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for pre-show picnicking and entertainment.

General admission is $20 for adults and free for those under 18. Reserved lawn boxes are available online for $90 to $110, with room for six. Parking is available in the lots off Mountclef Boulevard north and south of Olsen Road.

Kingsmen Shakespeare Company is the professional theater company of Cal Lutheran. The nonprofit organization coordinates apprentice programs for professional and aspiring actors, an educational tour program in local schools, and summer theater camps for youth.